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6 Event Snapshots to Ring Out the Summer

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Discover conference in Las Vegas in June, dancers from Quixotic, a performance art collective, used video and pixel poi technology in their opening-session routine. Images changed throughout the performance to coincide with the dance. Photo credit: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

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Entrepreneurs know how to succeed in business… and rock a party! Big Omaha, an annual three-day event for the entrepreneurial community held earlier this year in Nebraska, ended with a ’90s-themed closing party at House of Loom, where attendees danced as confetti cannons exploded around them. Photo credit: Joshua Foo Photography

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EG 2016, an annual conference for creatives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, commissioned photographers and artists to create photo portraits of all 30 of their speakers, including musician Butterscotch—who holds the title of the world’s first beatboxing champion. The artists used chalk markers on Plexiglas to create the personalized masterpieces. Photo credit: Asa Mathat

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If you thought this was a shot of Red Rocks Amphitheatre, an entertainment venue near Denver, check again. It’s actually a replica of the venue, set up in Chicago by Visit Denver as an experiential marketing scheme for a festival in June. Branded “Denver Live on the Rocks Stage,” the imitation had performances from Denver bands and a VIP area reserved for event profs. Photo credit: Visit Denver

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In June, attendees took a step back to the good ol’ days at Search Marketing Expo Advanced, an event in Seattle for search marketers. At Bing’s adult-size Lite-Brite display, attendees used neon pegs to create designs that illuminated an after-dark networking event at Seattle Aquarium. Photo credit: Jerad Hill/Search Marketing Expo

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Attendees can’t help but get jiggy wit’ it when Ubisoft is in the house. The video game development company unveiled “Just Dance 2017,” a dance and fitness game hitting stores this October, at the 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Its booth included a stage surrounded by screens that streamed the game and dancers dressed as “Just Dance” characters.